Doha-based Filipino theatre group Tangahalang Overseas Pinoy (TOPi) will feature the work of an award-winning Filipino musician and lyricist on November 29 ( Friday) and December 6 ( Friday) at Qatar Academy Auditorium in Qatar Foundation.
The title of the original Filipino musical play is Alikabok (Dust) which is a musical production libretto by Noel Balmaceda and music by Ryan Cayabyab. The play will be staged at 3pm and 7pm on both days.
As part of TOPi’s mission to giving back to community, part of the proceeds of this year-end show will be donated to the scholarship programme of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Doha.
"Juan Luna’s classic painting entitled "La Bulaque?a,” hanging in Malaca?ang, was the inspiration for Alikabok. The play is very significant to TOPi because it was the first play staged by the group in 2005, which also marked the birth of the organisation,” according to TOPi Chairman Chester Mendoza.
Alikabok relives the story of Bising Vallejo who lived with her widowed father in their ancestral home in San Rafael, Bulacan in 1895. She moved amid the splendor, gentility and political drama of the Philippines in the 1890s. Her story tells of her evolution into a brave and valiant revolutionary fighting for the country’s independence against her father’s wishes; of her love for Ignacio and their love child. All this is discovered by Greg, her great grandson, and his wife Anna who find her diary in the now rundown and dilapidated Vallejo house.
Aside from doing musical shows TOPI have been very active in various community services such as medical missions, in collaboration with a health clinic in Doha, to provide free medical checkups, medicines and consultations to Filipinos in Doha.
Generated from the group’s shows/ concerts, TOPi donated air tickets to overseas Filipino workers and funded an e-bike to our kababayan Inan. Inan is a high school student with a rare physical deformity called Congenital Genu Recurvatum (backward-bending knee) from Mindoro.
For inquires, feel free to send private message in this link https://www.facebook.com/TO.Pi.ofwtheatregroup/ .
The title of the original Filipino musical play is Alikabok (Dust) which is a musical production libretto by Noel Balmaceda and music by Ryan Cayabyab. The play will be staged at 3pm and 7pm on both days.
As part of TOPi’s mission to giving back to community, part of the proceeds of this year-end show will be donated to the scholarship programme of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Doha.
"Juan Luna’s classic painting entitled "La Bulaque?a,” hanging in Malaca?ang, was the inspiration for Alikabok. The play is very significant to TOPi because it was the first play staged by the group in 2005, which also marked the birth of the organisation,” according to TOPi Chairman Chester Mendoza.
Alikabok relives the story of Bising Vallejo who lived with her widowed father in their ancestral home in San Rafael, Bulacan in 1895. She moved amid the splendor, gentility and political drama of the Philippines in the 1890s. Her story tells of her evolution into a brave and valiant revolutionary fighting for the country’s independence against her father’s wishes; of her love for Ignacio and their love child. All this is discovered by Greg, her great grandson, and his wife Anna who find her diary in the now rundown and dilapidated Vallejo house.
Aside from doing musical shows TOPI have been very active in various community services such as medical missions, in collaboration with a health clinic in Doha, to provide free medical checkups, medicines and consultations to Filipinos in Doha.
Generated from the group’s shows/ concerts, TOPi donated air tickets to overseas Filipino workers and funded an e-bike to our kababayan Inan. Inan is a high school student with a rare physical deformity called Congenital Genu Recurvatum (backward-bending knee) from Mindoro.
For inquires, feel free to send private message in this link https://www.facebook.com/TO.Pi.ofwtheatregroup/ .